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by juliushuijnk 540 days ago
My hypothesis; it's people who believe in a just world. That think value and wisdom need to come from effort and/or pain.

Potential litmus test; They like videoclips from Coldplay where every frame is drawn with real crayons.

Then it's hard to value a machine that can not feel pain or effort and just generates. It's not fair it didn't have to suffer, and then flip the arrow to say, therefore it's not valuable.

Happy to becorrected. I'm also very curious what mental models are behind such big differences in perspectives.

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Nope. There’s a lot— a lot— written on artistic process and intention. What art is and what it means is a deep philosophical topic that has been pulled apart for millennia. The sheer arrogance of nearly the entire tech world reducing the value of the artistic process to a few simple logical business friendly ideas using a few a priori thought experiments while disregarding the existing philosophy on the matter is the sort of thing making the tech industry so deeply unpopular right now.
This is interesting! So to some, perhaps, the creator, intent and process matter as much as—if not more than—the output. The “becoming” over the “being.”